'War has been one of the defining forces in Australian history ... Participation in war, whether actively in the armed forces or on the home front, or in opposition to a particular war, has shaped the lives of successive generations of Australians in the twentieth century. Today ... questions relating to defence do not usually seize the attention of the media, but the Department of Defence remains one of the largest single consumers of the annual federal budget, and Anzac Day continues to hold a special place in the Australian calendar.' These words introduced the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History in 1995. More than a decade later much has changed. Australian forces are currently employed in widely dispersed operations around the world, in particular in Iraq, Afghanistan, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands, and questions of defence, broadly understood, have once again become a matter of public debate and controversy. This substantial new edition of the Companion builds on the strength of the first edition. Many of the original entries have been retained, some with minor emendations or additions, while others have been rewritten in the light of recent scholarship. There are also many new entries on topics that were omitted from the first edition, either because they did not seem to warrant inclusion or simply because they were overlooked, while others have assumed a new significance in the light of developments since 1995. In all cases the editors have sought to retain the original aim of combining information, some of it technical, with analysis, and to do so in a manner that will make the Companion accessible and useful both to the general reader and to the specialist.

Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

History

Grey, Jeffrey

Dennis, Peter

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

This is a comprehensive guide to Australian military history, broadly conceived within a critical and analytical framework. Its 800 entries. extend beyond standard categories such as battles, campaigns, biographies, and weapons, and encompass the structures of various parts of the defense force organization and their evolution, military language and customs, literature dealing with military themes and treaties, alliances and acts of parliament that have had a significant impact on the military. Complete with 100 photographs and 32 maps, the result is a comprehensive work of reference, analysis and interest that will come to be regarded as the authoritative work in the field.

The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

Prior, Robin

Morris, Ewan

This volume examines the military obligation of government during the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia. During this time, the defense has endured two world wars as well as a series of other military engagements. Although the reputation of military has become a significant factor in the lives and views of Australians, the topic rarely receives public interest. This book explains the complexities of this essential strand of the Commonwealth.

The Australian Centenary History of Defence (The ^AAustralian Centenary History of Defence)

The Ottomans fought soldiers from Russia, France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India and other parts of the British Empire in various theatres: the Dardanelles, Sinai, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia. The war with the Ottoman Empire was not only a war between great empires, but was also a war of empire and the furthering of European imperial interests; its aftermath laid the foundations of the modern Middle East. The Great War devastated every state and every society that it touched. Although we have sentimentalised 'Johnny Turk', we remain largely ignorant of the Ottoman experience of the war. This book examines the involvement of Australians in this part of the Great War in a wider context, to uncover the real importance of these complex events and Australia's part in them. Drawing on archival records in Australasia, Europe and North America, The War with the Ottoman Empire provides a fresh perspective on Australia's involvement in the Great War and our place in the world as empires shifted.   The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War series is an accessible and scholarly account of the impact of one of the great formative national experiences in our history. Based on wide-ranging research from Australian, British and other sources, it provides fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking about the issues, events and personalities that helped define Australia and Australians

The War with the Ottoman Empire: Volume II: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War (Centenary History of Australia & the Great War)

The War at Home interprets the experience of the Australian people during the Great War in Australia itself, in the politics of war, its economic and social effects, and in the experience of war; what is conventionally called social history. It seeks to show that the war affected many aspects of Australians lives and that peoples' experience of 1914-18 included more than just the war. It also addresses the impact of the war on Australia's culture and artistic responses to the war.This volume draws on the uneven but still substantial body of scholarship that has grown up in the decades since Ernest Scotts official history appeared in 1936, which in turn has largely been founded on an array of sources mainly made available since then. The Bibliographic Essay discusses the secondary literature on which it is based. It also reflects the experience of the years since then. The events of our past change how we understand more distant history. It is impossible now to think of the internment of German Australians without also reflecting on the experiences of those detained in immigration detention camps, to think of the battle of Broken Hill without also thinking of the war on terror pursued from 2001, or to look at Norman Lindsay's posters without recalling the insidious influence of propaganda in the century since. Before understanding the way the Great War affected Australians, we need to acknowledge the texture of life in 1914. Australia before the Great War was, as Michelle Hetherington writes in a survey of the last full year of peace, a world of glorious possibilities, in which as a social laboratory of progressive social, industrial and economic legislation it was eager to learn, to develop, to dream. The war would damage that dream, arguably fatally.

The War at Home: Volume IV: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

Stanley, Peter

Connor, John

Yule, Peter

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself–including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. This book is for undergraduate courses in American Military History. It covers from the colonial period through the War on Terror, using a narrative and thematic approach. Includes the development of civilian control of the military; the American military at war; the professionalization of the American military; the use of American military power to achieve national strategic objectives; and the non-military uses of the American military throughout American history.

American Military History + Mysearchlab: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present

Valentine, Janet G.

Allison, William Thomas

Americas

Pearson College Div

Official history is a misunderstood genre of historical writing, which attracts much negative comment from (non-official) historians but about which very little detail is actually known. This book examines the development of official history programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand over the course of the twentieth century, looking at the ways in which they developed and the contributions each made to their respective national historiography. The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies.
Drawing on programs in Australia, Britain, and the United States, these essays examine the relationship between the histories, the historians, and their sponsoring institutions. They assess the impact of the histories on historical understanding of the Second World War. They also consider the impact that contemporary events during the Cold War had on the writing of the official history.

The Last Word?: Essays on Official History in the United States and British Commonwealth (Contributions to the Study of World History)

Praeger

Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a lengthy period in both Japan and Korea between 1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life and career of "Red Robbie," it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development of the Australian regular army and the professional officer corps. It is also the first account of the occupation of Japan from a senior officer's perspective, as Robertson was Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the Second World War. This episode is set in the context of the continuing relationship between Britain and the Pacific dominions.

Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson

Biographies & Memoirs

Cambridge University Press

A Military History of Australia (Studies in Australian History)

This book represents a new, expanded and substantially updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. As well as providing a detailed chronological narrative of the wars in which Australia has been involved, it discusses the evolution of defense policy in peace and war, and the impact of war and military service on civilian society. In addition, the book considers how national security and defense policy is being shaped at the end of the twentieth century in a rapidly changing world.

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Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History

The Australian Centenary History of Defence (The ^AAustralian Centenary History of Defence)

The War with the Ottoman Empire: Volume II: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War (Centenary History of Australia & the Great War)

The War at Home: Volume IV: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War

American Military History + Mysearchlab: A Survey from Colonial Times to the Present

The Last Word?: Essays on Official History in the United States and British Commonwealth (Contributions to the Study of World History)

Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson

A Military History of Australia (Studies in Australian History)

A Military History of Australia (Studies in Australian History)